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Comment Re:No legal way outside UK (Score 2) 45

I'd watch that show! Can't you just picture Dwayne doing his "Smoldering" pose while holding a sonic AR-15?

Don't forget that the companions would all be Playboy Playmates wearing skimpy outfits and the show would feature lots of slow-motion running towards the camera like Baywatch...

Comment Re:Supreme Court (Score 2) 401

Don't forget the Dems also want to make Washington D.C. a state, and Puerto Rico a state as well -- that will give them 4 additional likely Dem seats in the Senate and a few more in the House as well. Add in enough Liberal SCOTUS judges and they can tip the balance of power in the favor of the Dems for the future...

Comment They're already there now (Score 1) 24

They just got the infrastructure setup and running for iPhones and Androids.

As I've said elsewhere here - TVs are now nothing more than 50"+ iPads (minus the touchscreen, of course because fingerprints bad!) A LOT of TVs are already running android in the background. The only thing holding them back is probably bluetooth interaction and more likely business contracts!

The question is... do you WANT to go this route as a business? Once you've turned XBox into a service there's really no need to buy the console and once you've decoupled XBox from the hardware and even Windows then you effectively become an internet gated wall with no leverage from your other products or even hardware business and you become an equal competitor with Steam, Epic and possibly Amazon and Netflix, leaving Sony, Nintendo and Apple in far stronger positions.

Comment Y'know... (Score 1) 345

A real journalist would've at least tried to contact Apple and get their response to this - even a "no comment" would be something.

Not that I don't believe it's happening but I'm hard pressed to understand how/why the evil US NSA would need to know whenever/whereever you open Safari and it's NOT because you left your ANALYTICS USAGE TURNED ON!

Comment Re:You buy the cheapest TVs on the market (Score 4, Interesting) 55

Because you're old, like me, and don't see 77" TVs as a communication device. Today's younger generation sees these as nothing more than giant iPads and it helps Grandma videochat.

The bigger question is if this android device had a firmware hole that allowed this on a TV - how many android phones have the same "glitch" that are patched without your permission?

Comment It's the current right tool for the current job... (Score 1) 103

As a crusty C/C++/Java developer my company has been shifting to cloud services/web tech. While the initial push was in Java for rapid server deployments on top of Apache, we've accelerated into microservices which run better with scripted languages. You can use Java there too - but with AWS' stuff you have longer cold start times. So the remaining common options are .NET, Javascript and Python and my team went with Python and were successful with out first project. That led us to getting more projects and now about 80% of our work is in Python with 20% doing maintenance on our legacy Java services and we're starting to explore migrating them to a set of Python microservices as well.

It's not that Java is bad or old or even too hard (seriously.. Java? The language that was designed from the ground up to be simple?!) It's just that the ecosystem has changed and Java is too ... not bloated but perhaps "complex" when trying to crank out apps that have become containerized within their own VPC and you don't need to worry as much about app level details as much as Infrastructure level details but Java still "forces" you too because of where it's current library/design fits.

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